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Notes on Table. 



In treating certain parts as more or less reddish all the 

 various paler shades (reddish-brown, reddish, flavous, 

 testaceous, etc.) are included, and all the metallic ones are 

 excluded. The metallic colours of the species of Edusa are 

 so variable, amongst the majority of species, that they are 

 almost useless for the identification of single specimens of any 

 species, by means of tables ; although with long series of some 

 species certain definite colours are occasionally found to be 

 more or less constant. 



A. d. On ziczac the elytra at first, even to the naked eye, 

 appear to have a zig-zag fascia due to nude spaces, but on 

 close examination the fascia is seen to be due to the pubescence 

 there being darker than on the adjacent parts. 



A A. On melanoptera the prothorax is slightly metallic, 

 and on ahdominalis the metallic gloss is sometimes but little 

 in evidence. 



B. The species here mostly correspond to the first B of 

 Blackburn's table, and free use has been made of some of 

 his divisions, although they cannot all be maintained; the 

 clothing, for instance, is so liable to abrasion that to rely 

 upon it for partially abraded specimens would lead to 

 confusion. 



AA. h. That the specimens identified by Blackburn as 

 varipes of Boisduval will eventually be regarded as represent- 

 ing a variety of distincta I think is possible, but it is at least 

 a typically coloured variety, differing also in the size of its 

 prothoracic punctures from the larger specimens of that 

 species; although from the smaller ones the colour only can 

 be relied upon. I do not purpose here, however, treating 

 distincta (the later name) as a variety or synonym of varipes, 

 as the identification of that species from its original descrip- 

 tion ("^^^ can only be a matter of guesswork, and was evidently 

 so regarded by Blackburn. Standing under the name in his 

 collection was a specimen sent by Chapuis as Edusa australis, 

 Hope (evidently an M.S. name). But till further informa- 

 tion is forthcoming it seems desirable to recognize the^species, 

 identified by Blackburn as varipes, to be such. 



A A. mm. To see this clearly the tibiae must be examined 

 from the sides. 



A A. n. The concavity here referred to is not the curva- 

 ture of the tibia, but a conspicuous irregular depression 

 bounded by narrow walls. 



(71) Aenea, plicato-rugulosa ; elytris pilis albis prostratis sub- 

 fasciculatis ; subtus aeneo-pilosa. 



